Noblegarden (April 8 - 15th) Guide

It's time for Noblegarden--a hunt for loot, this time in the form of brightly colored eggs! We join together to "share the joy of life and friendship" all the while looking for carefully hidden eggs and devouring tons of chocolate!

Noblegarden starts on April 8 at 3:00 AM and ends on April 15 at 3:00 AM. Brightly Colored Eggs have been hidden all across the starting areas for both Alliance and Horde players to discover. These eggs can contain chocolates which serve as a currency to buy seasonal goodies--sometimes they also have special prizes! Simply head out to one of your faction's starting areas, grab some quests, and get out there and hunt eggs! Maybe you'll even earn some achievements along the way!

Remember, this year, a new mount is tied to the event: Swift Springstrider! It costs 500 Noblegarden chocolates this year--very lucky people will be able to find it in a Brightly Colored Egg as a very rare drop! There are also Pink Spring Circlet and Black Spring Circlet for Azeroth fashion aficionados!

Quests

Spring Gatherers or Spring CollectorsStart: Commoners found in the various citiesEnd:Spring Gatherer or Spring CollectorThis quest is simply a breadcrumb quest, leading players from major cities to a Noblegarden camp, which can be found in the Horde or Alliance starting areas. For Horde, these areas include Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill. For Alliance, these areas include Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, or Kharanos. Travel to any of them and speak to the Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector to obtain a daily quest.

The basket that is rewarded is exactly the same as the one you are provided with for the quest. Unless you have extra chocolates, you should probably not complete the quest.

Hunting for Eggs

Players will once again be scurrying to hunt down Brightly Colored Eggs that spawn hidden in the starting areas of Azeroth:

Alliance: Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos

Horde: Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill

Eggs can be found only in the starting areas.

The main item players will be collecting from the Brightly Colored Egg are the currency of the Noblegarden event: Noblegarden Chocolate. These will be in nearly every egg. Sometimes, instead of chocolate, an egg will contain an item such as Spring Rabbit's Foot. This means it's generally best to keep farming the eggs until you have enough chocolates to buy every item you want from the vendors, just in case you get lucky and get a valuable item or two while collecting eggs.

You should also expect to collect a lot of them; they are not only a currency used to purchase items from Noblegarden vendors, there are also achievements for actually consuming quantities of the chocolates.

Noblegarden Goodies

Noblegarden features a small assortment of festive items which can be purchased from a Noblegarden Vendor or Noblegarden Merchant (found in one of your faction's starting towns) in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Or, you may get lucky and find one or more of these items while you're out hopping around for eggs!

That is, of course, assuming that you don't find any of the vendor items while hunting eggs--after opening that many eggs, I hope at least a few show up! Everything, including the new mount, can be found in the eggs so lady luck is definitely on your side!

Blushing BrideFor this achievement, you must kiss another player of either gender who is wearing an Elegant Dress while you are wearing a White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants. These clothes can be found randomly in a Brightly Colored Egg or purchased from a vendor in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Note that the achievement is only awarded to the player wearing the Tuxedo set (and that this Tuxedo set is different than the tailor-crafted set), so in order to complete the achievement you will have to purchase the White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants yourself while another player can have the Elegant Dress. Since these items are not bind on pickup, however, you can opt to simply trade clothes with a friend and take turns getting the achievement.

Hard BoiledFor this achievement you must lay an egg in the Golakka Hot Springs of Un'Goro Crater while polymorphed into a Noblegarden Bunny. There are two different ways to become a Noblegarden Bunny. The easy way is to have another player travel with you and use a Blossoming Branch to change you into a rabbit. Simply stand around long enough and eventually your rabbit will lay an egg--voila, achievement done. The more complicated way is to open Brightly Colored Eggs until you are randomly transformed into a Noblegarden Bunny. Then, good luck getting to Un'goro. The most logical way to get there (assuming a level 80 character who isn't an engineer):1. Get transformed into a rabbit.

3. If you hearthed to Dalaran, take the portal to Caverns of Time located inside the Violet Citadel.

4. Run across Tanaris to Un'Goro Crater, praying not to get in combat because damage will break the disguise. Oh, and you can't mount or taxi, either, so the run will take you close to 15 minutes. Swimming won't remove your rabbit costume.

5. Sit anywhere at the Golakka Hot Springs for a few seconds, until you lay an egg.

Obviously, the method stated first is much, much easier and way more practical!

Spring Fling or Spring FlingThis achievement requires that you have first obtained the Spring Rabbit's Foot, either by looting it randomly from a Brightly Colored Egg or purchasing it from a Noblegarden vendor for 100 Noblegarden Chocolate. Once you have done that, head out to each of the four starting areas for your faction and find another player with a Spring Rabbit. After a few moments of the rabbits noticing each other, the magic will happen! No spoilers, but ha ha, "like rabbits" and all that - let's keep things PG-13 and pretend we're all mature enough to simply have a chuckle at Blizzard's little joke. Anyway, do this at all four starting areas and you're done!

Comments

Comment by MABGamer6407

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:27:12 -0500

Very Nice picture! ugg.., im Gona hate farming for these eggs i can never get ahold of what i want, too many players now an days. an now even the non late 1s will have a excuse to get on wow at 2 in the morning to farm lol. hopefully By next year when pandas are around they will Add a Vermin mutant bunny thing as a Giant easter Monster boss, that Be a great way too start the New year.

Comment by Odarp

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:35:06 -0500

I just got the mount inside an egg, so I'm done this year as I already have the title. (It was my 34th egg :D)

Comment by shaunmccabe

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:08:37 -0500

That just means you can sell the second one! $$$

Comment by bloodglas

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:35:54 -0500

I just got the mount inside an egg, so I'm done this year as I already have the title. (It was my 34th egg :D)

This, to the letter. I have all achieves already and got the mount from my 34th egg. Creepy O.o

Comment by Texar

I have a bad feeling I'm going to farm up 499 eggs then the mount will drop from the last one.....

That sounds like my luck too... Not sure if I'll cry or laugh when (well, I suppose "if") it happens...

Comment by Xedosz

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:33:41 -0500

I can never find any eggs for some reason.

That's because they're smaller than they appear.Didn't you read the warning? :P

Comment by Mykon

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:08:20 -0500

Cheers wowhead, great guide. got my title nice and quickly, and my lovely mount drop in an egg :D

Comment by Namos

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:18:28 -0500

It should be noted there is an inn at Marshal's Stand in Ungoro Crater. It shouldn't be that difficult to solo the Hard Boiled achievement.

Comment by Sas148

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:19:17 -0500

Okay, took almost two hours but I got the 500 eggs. lol

Comment by Sas148

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:30:40 -0500

That just means you can sell the second one! $$$

It's BoP.

Comment by Strafer

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:47:43 -0500

For some reason I really hate this event, there is always too many people camping the eggs.

I need my purple mount dammit.

Comment by Sas148

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:54:06 -0500

For some reason I really hate this event, there is always too many people camping the eggs.

I need my purple mount dammit.

It's white... unless you're referring to purple as in epic.

lol - And yea, but that's suppose to add to the legitimacy of it. If you've ever went egg hunting, it's usually a fairly cut throat event. haha

Comment by MrNatural

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:19:43 -0500

I started farming eggs & chocolate at 4:00am EST and got my 500 eggs and the Swift Springstrider at 9:12am EST

Comment by Chuckbewoke

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:21:45 -0500

Actually a easy way to do the Hard Boiled achieve is to fly to Un'goro and set your hearth there, then go to the nearest town and loot eggs until you become a rabbit and hearth to Un'goro. Just another way to do it.

Comment by Weapon0

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:25:07 -0500

I'm annoyed the mount is BoP. I was gonna sell it for 10,000 g like I did the love one. Oh well, I think I'm done with Noblegarden then.

Comment by Gzer0

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:08:09 -0500

Go0d Job on this ashelia .

This is the only event that I've never tried to obtain anything of it -- And will never try !

Comment by crustyanius

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:20:15 -0500

a little tip for egg hunting is to turn you graphic settings to low so they are the first thing to appear in the distance. makes it much easier.

Comment by dracoix99

For some reason I really hate this event, there is always too many people camping the eggs.

I need my purple mount dammit.

It's white... unless you're referring to purple as in epic.

lol - And yea, but that's suppose to add to the legitimacy of it. If you've ever went egg hunting, it's usually a fairly cut throat event. haha

he is probably referring to the proto drake...just my guess

Comment by Soffin

on Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:50:24 -0500

For Boiled Egg, I'm doing it by binding my hearth to Un'Goro, and picking up eggs till I get transformed into a bunny. You can use your hearth in bunny form, I found out. Doing this way since none of my friends are online, and I kind of like doing things myself c; But that's another way of doing it, so I figured I'd share it with everyone.